Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles

2023/0284(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0284(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 24 Jul 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 18 Jun 2026 (final vote): adopted with 437 votes in favour, 112 against and 20 abstentions.

Reference
2023/0284(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title
Circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and 2019/1020 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC
Status
Completed, 1st reading
Lead
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Opinion
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Alexandra Mehnert (EPP, Germany))
Parliamentary committee for opinion on legal basis
JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Tobiasz Bocheński (ECR, Poland))
Rapporteurs
Jens Gieseke (EPP, Germany), Paulius Saudargas (EPP, Lithuania)
Shadow rapporteurs
Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left, Sweden), Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), David Cormand (Greens/EFA, France), Sara Matthieu (Greens/EFA, Belgium), Matteo Ricci (S&D, Italy), Pierfrancesco Maran (S&D, Italy), Ivars Ijabs (Renew, Latvia), Pascal Canfin (Renew, France), Alexandr Vondra (ECR, Czechia), Piotr Müller (ECR, Poland), Filip Turek (PfE, Czechia), Silvia Sardone (PfE, Italy), Anja Arndt (ESN, Germany), Arno Bausemer (ESN, Germany)
Opinions
6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 29 Jun 2026: Council (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 2 against, 1 abstention. Against: Austria, Hungary; Abstained: Slovakia. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

  1. 19 Oct 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 22 Oct 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 21 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 3 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  5. 7 Jul 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  6. 6 Aug 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 8 Sep 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  8. 9 Sep 2025: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
  9. 16 Oct 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 11 Dec 2025)
  10. 25 Feb 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
  11. 16 Apr 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  12. 18 Jun 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda); EP position at 1st reading
  13. 8 Jul 2026: Signature
  14. 24 Jul 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.